Faculty/Staff

Geriatrics Education
Clinical Care

Research

Grant Funding


Ralston Center



Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Fellow of the Institute on Aging

University of Pennsylvania
Division of Geriatric Medicine
Ralston-Penn Center
Room 224
3615 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2676

Telephone: (215) 898-3798
Facsimile: (215) 573-86843
E-mail: jravi@med.upenn.edu


Education


1992 MS University of Pennsylvania
1996 PhD University of Pennsylvania


Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments

Research/Clinical Interests

  1. Regulatory Economics and Health Care Policy
  2. Quality of Care, Clinical Economics
  3. Geriatrics and Minority Health
Biographical Sketch

Dr. Jayadevappa received his doctorate from University of Pennsylvania in May 1996. Dr. Jayadevappa’s research focuses on regulatory economics and analyzing the tradeoff between economic efficiency, equity and quality. His research interests are health services research related to micro/macro level health policy issues of elderly, health outcomes, quality of life, health disparity, and cost-effectiveness of medical care. Dr. Jayadevappa has received the new Investigator award from the Department of Defense to analyze the cost and quality of life of patients with prostate cancer. He has also received the Health Disparity- Prostate Cancer Scholar award from the Department of Defense. He is also extensively involved in research related to chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, prostate cancer, breast cancer and Alzeimers’. Dr. Jayadevappa has been a collaborative investigator on several research project funded by the National Institute of Health and has several publications in the Journals of American Geriatrics Society, PharmacoEconomics, Gastroentoerology, Academic Medicine Journal and Ecological Economics
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